Authors

Date of this Version

1970

Comments

Published in Science, New Series, Vol. 168, No. 3937 (Jun. 12, 1970), pp. 1368-1370.
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Abstract

The release of 8,400 to 18,000 males per day of Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus Say which had been exposed to a sterilizing agent (thiotepa), suppressed and eliminated an indigenous population of this mosquito on an island off the cost of Florida in a 10 week period. Sterile males were effective in seeking out and mating with females on the island.